Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Our Reliance *on* the Traveler

My immediately previous essay, noting a nearly unique instance of the Counter-Jihad Mainstream noticing, and appropriately rejecting, the wiles of a Better Cop (in this case, Michael Devolin writing for Jihad Watch about the sophistry of supposed Muslim "reformer" Tarek Fatah), called for the Counter-Jihad to take this incipient baby step up a notch -- not only to suspect all the other Better Cops, but also to realize that any Muslim "reformer" no matter how sweet his taqiyya is, is to be rejected on the basis of axiomatic prejudice -- i.e., without recourse to evidence at all, other than the fact that he or she is Muslim: a Zero Tolerance for all Muslims.

Beyond that, I say we should stop looking to this or that Muslim intellectual
to tell us what we already know -- that their Islam is pernicious.

Speaking of looking to
Muslim intellectuals, Devolin begins his piece on Jihad Watch, revolving around the
principle that Islam cannot be reformed, with a reliance on “Syrian poet” Adonis Asbar, respectfully quoting him:

“You can not [sic] reform a religion. If they are reformed, [the original
meaning] is separated from it. Therefore, modern Muslims and a modern
Islam is already impossible. If there is no separation between religion
and state, there will be no democracy especially without equality for
women. Then we will keep a theocratic system. So it will end.”

Why
are we even citing a Muslim to tell us what we already know about
Islam? Because some of us don't yet fully grasp how disastrously
pernicious Islam is? Why would respectfully citing the words of a
Muslim move them to see what they haven't seen already? Are they that
reliant on the word of Muslims that they cannot trust their own white
Westerners to relay the mountains of evidence that damns Islam?

Secondly,
there's a subtle problem going on here. Even if someone in the West,
relatively deformed by PC MC, after mulling over the words of this “Syrian poet”, would grudgingly grant that a “modern Islam” and a
“modern Muslim” are impossible, the learning process would not be over.
There still lurks another way to salvage the Muslim from our
condemnation, by redefining him according to various permutations of
Muslims who somehow are not all that Islamic -- to wit:

the Lax Muslim

the Muslims Who Don’t Know Their Own Islam

the Muslims Who Are Too Afraid To Come Out of the Secularist
Closet

the MINO ("Muslim In Name Only", echoing the RINO, the "Republican In Name Only" or false Conservative).The vast majority of Muslims who support the literal interpretation even
if they do not have the strength of conviction to carry it out [I kid you not, this is a quote from a Jihad Watch reader]

the (relatively) Non-Observant Muslimthe Muslim Ignorant of His Own Islam

--
and then the various variations on these, developed by ex-Muslim Bosch
Fawstin (who should know better -- or does he already...?), including
the surreal climax: the “essentially non-Muslim Muslim” (I kid you not!).

The “Escape Valve”

While
that last formulation strikes one as bizarre, it is actually the very
gist of the entire list of these permutations. And it
represents an escape valve, as it were, to allow the person who is
waking up to the full horror, the full catastrophe of Islam (and what it
means for our appraisal of all its followers) to avoid condemning all
Muslims. How many Muslims would be spared our criticism &
condemnation through this escape valve? And on what basis could we be
sure they really are what we so anxiously would like them to be?

Those are questions which the Counter-Jihad Softie will never answer. Such answers, just like Islamic reform, are impossible, because they are predicated on the implicit assumptions that 1) we can tell the difference between the Harmless Muslim and the Dangerous Muslim, and that 2) there is no unified, concerted, global revival of jihad unfolding in our time in direct continuity with the “Longest War” -- the war Muslims have been waging against the West from the 7th century A.D. to our present now in the 21st century, with no end in sight other than our destruction or their deportation.

The “Better Traveler”

As to the title of this essay of mine here today: it refers to a manual of Islamic law which has become increasingly well-known in the Counter-Jihad -- “Reliance of the Traveler” -- whose full Arabic title is ‘Umdat as-Salik wa ‘Uddat an-Nasik.

Salik is the word translated as
“Traveler”. I think the term may be more centrally, even officially, relevant to
Islamic Jihad -- particularly that one type of Jihad we have come to know
all too well, the “Jihad of the Feet” (or Immigration).

Thus, the “Traveler” of that title may well refer to the Muslim migrations,
which have been going on for 1,400 years (only increasing since 911, then dramatically, alarmingly
spiking these past couple of years and showing no signs of abating). Migrations joined at
the
hip with Islam's supremacist expansionism -- whether by hook (violence) or by
crook (stealth); or both, as in our time.

I.e., in Islam, a Muslim be
definition is a pilgrim in this world, penetrating outside the ever-expanding Dar-al-Islam in the never-ending desideratum to
conquer the world -- for there is always more Lebensraum for the
Muslim to expand into in order to restore the earth to Allah’s control.
This would not be the pilgrimage of the Christian
“Pilgrim’s Progress” -- ultimately an interior journey -- but one
intimately interlocked with the militant,
supremacist expansionism of Islam.

The “Syrian poet” whom Michael Devolin of the Counter-Jihad Mainstream cites respectfully, approvingly, reliant upon his perspective & diagnosis of the problem of Islam, is himself a Muslim Traveler (he lives in Paris these days, and he recently received the prestigious Goethe Literary Award in Frankfurt, Germany) -- a “Better Traveler” we could say, fooling even the Counter-Jihad Mainstream into thinking that, because he criticizes his own Muslim world in seeming dismay, he is not, as a Muslim, deep down yearning for the day Islam takes over the West. And Michael Devolin is not the only one impressed by this “Syrian poet”: take a look at this Google page of other venues (e.g., Breitbart News) hailing this Noble Savage upon whom we ought rely. And Adonis Asbar is not the only one. The article on his winning the Goethe Prize goes on to note:

As well as Adonis's Goethe Prize, there's the Erich Maria Remarque Peace
Prize in Osnabrück for Tahar Ben Jalloun in September, the Peace Prize
of the German book trade for Boualem Sansal in October [Sansal is the “ponytailed Muslim” I wrote about recently], and the PEN
Club's Hermann Kesten Prize for the Egyptian publisher Mohammed Hashim.

Conclusion:

In our reliance upon him and other Muslim “reformers” we are predisposing ourselves to accept, as a fait accompli, innumerable Muslims into the fabric of our societies, because their mere existence, and their mirage of moderation -- and our anxiously gullible need to avoid being prejudiced against all of them -- reinforces the false cogency of the escape valve I noted above. This in turn softens up (or reinforces the already existing softness in) the Counter-Jihad, just to make sure the one area of the West -- this still preciously small and beleaguered microcosm where our Reawakening is converging and trying to expand to prod awake the vast rest of the West -- itself never wakes up to the dire exigency of a Zero Tolerance for All Muslims.

6 comments:

Egghead
said...

Here are a few more for your list:

The African American Muslim - Many African Americans view Christianity as the 'white man's religion' and have thus racially embraced Islam lite (a term that I coined specifically regarding African American Islam because African American women have NOT participated in the clitorectomies faced by 'real' Muslim women). I would guess that virtually everyone in the African American community personally knows African American Muslims who are regarded as very nice people who are well-kept and avoid drugs.

The Cultural Muslim - Many Muslims portray their religion as cultural rather than religious. These Muslims tell Westerners that they go to the 'community center' every week and on holidays (instead of the mosque).

The Atheist Muslim - Many Muslims (as Jews) present themselves as mere atheists while actively advocating for the Muslim (Jewish) culture (including increased immigration and legal protections) derived from their putative religion. Of course, Western Christian atheists do the same thing!

The Modern Muslim - Many Muslims convince gullible Westerners that Western Muslims (who are literally practicing Sharia Law) are different than more primitive Muslims. Muslims here aren't like 'that' anymore.

The Ex-Muslim Muslim - Based on the historical record, in the context of group conversions as a basis for Western residency, it is inadequate for a group of Muslims to simply state that they are ex-Muslims. In truth, a simple statement or signature on a paper renouncing Islam is incapable to enable Muslim family members to 'negate' a lifetime of Islamic propaganda, culture, and morals - especially if all of the 'ex-Muslims' are still living together and visiting the community center together.

As I have mentioned before, Christians were so dismayed by Jewish actions that Christians picked a new name for themselves to show that the ideas and morals that Christians represent are different than the ideas and morals that Jews represent.